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My left hand is still infected 
This last Tuesday I went back to the hand surgeon (yes, it a sub-speciality) earlier this week and it was draining too much and was also too inflamed and red for her taste, so she tossed me straight into the OR again on 1 hours notice
Result: instead of a 3/4" wound I now have a much larger one that goes from about 1.5" below my fingers to the wrist and is nearly as deep as the tendons. She cut out as much of the infection as she could see and left it open to the air so oxygen can help kill the rest. Since she did it with a nerve block I even got to watch, which was kinda interesting.
If you want to see what it looks like now here's a picture. I didn't embed the picture for obvious reasons.
Needless to say typing is now a 1 handed affair for a bit....
Now I'm on enough Cipro (very powerful antibiotic for resistant bugs) to kill a horse and enough painkillers (Darvon and Vicodin) to float a battleship. The bugs ended up being staph and streptococcus A. Strep A can at times can turn flesh-eater (necrotizing fascitis)
Hopefully it'll be healed enough next Wednesday that she'll stitch it shut. If not it's under the knife again on Thursday for another round of digging, but this time even deeper
All this from a F#%K*&G 1/2" sliver from a piece of plywood.....
Dr. Mordrid
This last Tuesday I went back to the hand surgeon (yes, it a sub-speciality) earlier this week and it was draining too much and was also too inflamed and red for her taste, so she tossed me straight into the OR again on 1 hours notice
Result: instead of a 3/4" wound I now have a much larger one that goes from about 1.5" below my fingers to the wrist and is nearly as deep as the tendons. She cut out as much of the infection as she could see and left it open to the air so oxygen can help kill the rest. Since she did it with a nerve block I even got to watch, which was kinda interesting.
If you want to see what it looks like now here's a picture. I didn't embed the picture for obvious reasons.
Needless to say typing is now a 1 handed affair for a bit....
Now I'm on enough Cipro (very powerful antibiotic for resistant bugs) to kill a horse and enough painkillers (Darvon and Vicodin) to float a battleship. The bugs ended up being staph and streptococcus A. Strep A can at times can turn flesh-eater (necrotizing fascitis)
Hopefully it'll be healed enough next Wednesday that she'll stitch it shut. If not it's under the knife again on Thursday for another round of digging, but this time even deeper
All this from a F#%K*&G 1/2" sliver from a piece of plywood.....
Dr. Mordrid
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